If Mitt manages to make it to the general election, he’ll do so burning any bridge to the middle he once had. His campaign is now all about union busting, tax breaks for people like Mitt Romney and birth control. If he thinks Democrats will let people forget that, he’s more arrogant than even I imagine.

Why is Snyder coming out for Mitt now after waiting to a point that in a typical primary would have made him irrelevant? I think he’s comforted by Mitt’s swing to the right. Michigan’s politics have been warped by the fact that we’re a solidly blue state when people vote and red when they don’t. Snyder’s best hope in 2013 is depress the vote and excite the base.

This is the kind of math that “numbers guys” like Snyder and Romney must hate.

Tony Trupiano is the host of the online radio program The Voice of the People, M-F, 9 a.m.-noon . He is the author of two books and has been part of the progressive media landscape for 20+ years. Follow him on Twitter @tonytrupiano.